Abstract
Abstract Chapter 6 studies politics over housing provision which linked the issues of commodification, urban housing, and demography. The issue of housing was raised in a large variety of forms. This chapter tracks these ‘lineages’ of the housing question, from above (directed by various state agencies) and from below (taken up by various agitations). Delhi’s symbolic centrality as capital city and sanitation discourses were two approaches to housing that were rooted in the authoritarian impulses of the colonial state. More broad-based articulations of the housing question can be seen in the struggles of government clerks, the nationalist movement, organizations taking up the caste question, and in battles over rent control. From this formidably diverse set of forces only a fractured politics of housing provision could emerge in Delhi.
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